Caspar Brötzmann Massaker: The Tribe

Caspar Brötzmann | Eduardo Delgado Lopez | Frank Neumeier | Jon Beuth

German guitarist Caspar Brötzmann is the son of saxophone colossus Peter Brötzmann, a musician hose fierce reputation for taking European...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2019

Alice Zawadzki: Within You Is A World Of Spring

Alice Zawadzki | Fred Thomas | Hyelim Kim | Laura Senior | Lucy Nolan | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Peggy Nolan | Rob Luft | Simmy Singh

London-based singer, violinist and pianist Alice Zawadzki gifts us a second album both tender in spirit and defiantly anti-genre, hooking...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2019

Pavillon: Strong Tea

Andy Panayi | Dave Whitford | Gene Calderazzo | Hans Koller | Jeremy Price | Jim Rattigan | Martin Speake | Mick Foster | Percy Pursglove | Robbie Robson

Jim Rattigan, who leads the A-list cast of experienced Brit-based jazzers that make up Pavillon, was a former principal French...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

John Ellis: Evolution: Seeds and Dreams

Ellie Smith | Helena Jane Summerfield | Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh | Jason Singh | Jessica Macdonald | John Ellis | John Haycock | Pete Turner | Rick Weedon | Sam Healey

This is a new twist on the spiritual jazz which underpins Matthew Halsall's Gondwana Records. A founder member of The...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2017

Florian Hoefner Group: Luminosity

This German-born pianist relocated from New York to Canada's Newfoundland as creative stimulant for this tranquil, contemporary post– bop recording...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2016

Instant Composers Pool: Complete Boxed Catalogue

Ab Baars | Ab Van Der Molen | Alan Silva | Alessandra Patrucco | Ank Sillem | Anthony Braxton | Arjen Gorter | Baldo Maestri | Bert Koppelaar | Derek Bailey

Formed by drummer Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg in 1967, just a few months after Brötzmann released his epochal...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2013

Chet Baker: Three Classic Albums Plus

Bob Neel | Bud Shank | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Corky Hale | Danny Richmond | Jimmy Bond | Joe Mondragon | Kenny Drew | Larance Marable

These two 2CD sets from Avid contain several of the key Chet Baker albums from the early 1950s to the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2018

Norbert Stein: Pata Messengers

Avant-garde saxophonist Norbert Stein’s quartet combines attractive jazz lyricism with a freer, contemporary classical inspired vernacular in a musical commentary...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

The Steve Fishwick/Osian Roberts/Frank Basile Sextet: In The Empire State

Frank Basile | Jeb Patton | Matt Fishwick | Mike Karn | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

For my (rapidly falling off the perch) generation, the British trumpet player was unquestionably Jimmy Deuchar. And for those who...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2016

Bill Doggett: Oops!/Prelude to the Blues

Two tenors, organ and rhythm was a formula that served Doggett well after his early big band days with Lucky...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017